Irene Minier's late husband John was one of the survivors of the Bataan Death March during World War II.

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Catharine Hadley
Staff writer

Her late husband, John, was one of the local men who was a soldier in the U.S. Army's Company C, 192nd Tank Battalion. "Thirty-two went and 10 came back. None of the officers came back. He was a prisoner for 42 months. He weighed 85 pounds when he came back," she said.

"They said they'd be lucky if they lived 10 years. He lived 42 ? My sister didn't want us to get married because she thought he wouldn't live very long. We were lucky. He was the nicest man you'd ever want to know," Minier said. ...